khamidou

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by khamidou 10mo ago
Seems like Kyber is dual-licensed AGPL and proprietary, seems like a pretty standard way to fund an open source project.
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by khamidou 11mo ago
In that case wouldn't the blame lie in the smarty-pants person? When the web site says everywhere that it's beta quality?
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by khamidou 11mo ago
The user is going to win after going out of their way to install an aftermarket binary blob on their deprecated thermostat? Seems like a stretch no?
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by khamidou 11mo ago
This is for people who have already bought a nest and got burnt by the deprecation of their online services. Of course they could get another thermostat but then that'd just be more stuff for the landfills.
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by khamidou 11mo ago
I don't get the hate, it looks like they reverse-engineered the nest thermostat and wrote a firmware for it? That's super cool and the fact that an open source project doesn't have a privacy policy yet doesn't really mat
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by khamidou 11mo ago
btw I've used neon for that and it worked well. Disclaimer: I have no relationship with them, I just have a shoestring budget.
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by khamidou 11mo ago
Obviously you probably thought about it but what about rendering the subtitles on top of the video stream? Was there a reason it was not possible (e.g DRMs?)
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by khamidou 11mo ago
Hey Filip – while we're talking about memory architecture, have you started looking at ARM's EMTE extension (e.g https://security.apple.com/blog/memory-integrity-enforcement... )? Could it eventually replace i
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by khamidou 11mo ago
Very strange logic. If we follow your example, going to the dealership and taking a car for a test drive is a rug pull because eventually the car dealer will ask you to pay for the car?
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by khamidou 11mo ago
How is wanting to build software sustainably a rug pull? Like seriously, if you get value from orbstack, it's fair to pay them. Otherwise you can still stick to free alternatives like colima which would be CLI only
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by khamidou 11mo ago
If you read up on this story, you'd find out it's not run off the mill corruption. Sarkozy actually conspired with a foreign state – in particular with someone who directed a terror attack that killed 50 french citizens (!) – to f
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by khamidou 11mo ago
I mean, it's not like you can get away with running with zero SREs if you're running in the cloud. The personnel costs for on-prem hosting are vastly exaggerated, especially if you contract out the actual annoying work to a colo.
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by khamidou 11mo ago
If you look up their latest annual report ( https://wikimediafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/W... ) you can see that they're allocating ~1.7% of their expenses towards hosting. I doubt that
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by khamidou 11mo ago
A lot of it is because platforms need a wedge against AWS/Azure. Take edge computing for example – most apps are CRUD apps that talk to a single database, but vendors keep pushing for running things on edge servers talking to databases
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by khamidou 11mo ago
Sorry to self-promote but I did exactly that a few months back: https://khamidou.com/gpt2/ Generally, I think the Karpathy tutorials are a good starting point but they're very mathy (despite people telling you you
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by khamidou 1y ago
> What's the use case for Zig? You're in that 1% of projects in which you need something beyond what a garbage collector can deliver and, what, you're in the 1% of the 1% in which Rust's language design hurts the vibe
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by khamidou 1y ago
Please — rust advocates need to realize that you're not winning anyone to rust with this kind of outlandish comments. Zig is not an extreme sports experience. It has much better memory guarantees than C. It's clearly not as good a
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by khamidou 1y ago
Just because they send them to a school without cell phones doesn't mean they're not hopelessly addicted to them
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by khamidou 1y ago
> The privileged few among us (I am not one of them) don't struggle with avoiding these addictions. Counterpoint, the richest man in the world is clearly addicted to being on twitter and posts at all hours of the day. More generally
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by khamidou 1y ago
That's very helpful – thanks for taking the time.
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by khamidou 1y ago
I'd be curious to hear more about how tmux helps you — I tried it and besides keeping a permanent session open on a remote server to me I didn't find much use for it compared to regular terminal tabs
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by khamidou 1y ago
> If memory safety was the only relevant metric, we would've rewritten everything in Java decades ago. well for a good 15-20 years the jvm had awful startup times which probably was why it was not attractive as a systems language. D
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by khamidou 1y ago
If I understand correctly, in your analogy, golang is floppies and rust is a sophisticated version control system? lol
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by khamidou 1y ago
> If all the kids love Rust and hate C, then perhaps a switch to Rust might be a necessary evil to ensure we'll have well-maintained coreutils for another generation. You still need to be careful to avoid the fad of the day, but I t
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by khamidou 1y ago
I mean the one bug with the 9.8 CVSS was a denial of service when calling sort(1). That sounds like CVE grade inflation tbh – if you have attackers running sort on your machine they can probably run worse exploits.
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by khamidou 1y ago
For sure – but maybe it doesn't have to be the side project of a non-profit whose main thing is RailsConf.
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by khamidou 1y ago
Again this is mixed causality. Rails did not take off because of commercial interests – besides dhh who was working on it on the side, all the initial committers were doing that for fun. Eventually they brought rails in many commercial comp
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by khamidou 1y ago
I think you got things mixed up, open source projects survive because volunteers believe in them and want to contribute to them. Large companies rarely get involved, occasionally with some funding. It sounds like they sold something to thei
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by khamidou 1y ago
There's some sunk cost fallacy at play here. If you've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a house in a remote suburb where your social activities are mostly playdates scheduled 3 months in advance, you don't want t
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by khamidou 1y ago
I mean 200 million people in the US live in the top 50 metro areas. Sure there's a lot of small cities out there but they don't account for much population.

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